Kia Lilly Caldwell, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts and Sciences · UNC-Chapel Hill
Dr. Caldwell can discuss the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on people of color in the U.S. and Brazil.
Critical Race Studies Black Feminism Gender and Race in Brazil Afro-Latin Studies African Diaspora Studies
Renee Alexander Craft, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, and the Curriculum in Global Studies, College of Arts and Sciences · UNC at Chapel Hill
Analyzes use of black diaspora performance to build community, argue for rights of citizenship & map differential blackness in the Americas.
Digital Humanities Black Diaspora Performance Carnival traditions in Panama Black Speculative Fiction Critical Ethnography
Claude Clegg
Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor · UNC-Chapel Hill
United States history expert with expertise in the U.S. Presidency. the American South and the Obama presidency.
Obama presidency United States History Nationalism Diaspora African American History
Thomas LaVeist
Dean of Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine · Tulane University
Dean Thomas LaVeist's areas of expertise include U.S. health and social policy and the role of race in health research.
COVID-19 Obesity Demographic Analysis Sociology Social Policy
Margarita R. Ochoa
Associate Professor of History · Loyola Marymount University
Department of History, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Social Justice and Equal Rights Latin America Race and Ethnicity Women and Gender Indigenous/Ethnohistory
Christopher Blakley
Lecturer of History · Loyola Marymount University
Christopher Blakley examines human-animal interactions between slaveholders, enslaved people, and animals in the 18th century.
History of the Atlantic World African Diaspora American History Slave Trade Race in Colonial America
Sara Johnson
Associate Professor of Literature · UC San Diego
Sara Johnson focuses on literature, theory and history of the Hispanophone, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas.
Diaspora Hemispheric Studies Caribbean Literature Francophone Literature African Diaspora
Darnise Martin
Clinical Associate Professor of African American Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
womanist theology African Diaspora Religion Religious Studies Theology and Culture African American History
Seretha Williams
Professor of English · Augusta University
Professor Williams is an expert in Africa and African Diaspora, Digital Humanities, and Digital Publication.
Digital Publication Africa and African Diaspora Digital Humanities
Leesa Renee Hall
Anti-Bias Facilitator · UnpackBiasesNow.com
Helping leaders unpack implicit and unconscious bias so they stop the spread of self-misinformation and start creating inclusive teams.
Productivity Ancestry Systemic Discrimination Misinformation Unconscious Bias
Katerina Zacharia
Professor of Classics · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Classics and Archaeology Classical Reception Greek drama Greek Cinema Greek ethnicity
Joseph Jordan
Director, Sonya Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History · UNC at Chapel Hill
For more than 20 years Joseph Jordan has been an educator, researcher and program manager in the arts and in cultural heritage
African / Afro - American Studies African American Culture Black and Native American Interactions Afro-Latin Studies Racial Justice
Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Associate Professor of Anthropology / Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center · University of Massachusetts Amherst
Whitney Battle-Baptiste's research focuses on how the intersection of race, gender, class and sexuality look through an archaeological lens.
Archaeology Black Feminist Theory Heritage Studies African Studies
Laura Smyth
Lecturer of Dance, College of Communication and Fine Arts · Loyola Marymount University
Lecturer of Dance